LITS Blog

Alexander Street Press Video Trial Expanded

brockportlits — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:44:53 +0000

Newly released addition to the trial:

Ethnographic Video — More than 750 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries for the visual study of human culture and behavior, with previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field and select feature films have been added. At the core are hundreds of the most frequently assigned films in anthropology, ethnography, and social psychology courses — works by world-famous pioneers in the field, including Edward Curtis (In the Land of the War Canoes); Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North); John Marshall (The Hunters, the entire !Kung Bushman Series; A Kalahari Family); Jean Rouch; Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; Robert Gardner (Dead Birds, Rivers of Sand, Forest of Bliss); Timothy Asch, Patsy Asch, and Napoleon Chagnon (the complete Yanomamo Series, The Ax Fight); and Asen Balikci. From the catalogs of leading producers, including Documentary Educational Resources (DER).

Alexander Street Press Video on Demand Trial

brockportlits — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:42:32 +0000

Please explore this very rich collection of online videos during the library’s trial. The trial lasts through April 2010. We have access to four collections of documentaries and performances-on-demand: Dance, Counseling and Rehabilitation, Theatre, and American History.

Dance in Video – 260 videos of dance productions and documentaries from around the world by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century and beyond. From the catalogs of PBS, ADF Videos, Art Works Videos, Alive & Kicking, Kultur, Merce Cunningham, etc.

Counseling and Rehabilitation in Video – 284 seminal videos of consultations, counseling sessions, interviews, demonstrations and lectures/presentations by leading psychiatric therapists. From the catalogs of Microtraining Assoc., Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Dept. of Psychiatry: the largest and richest online collection of videos for the study of counseling, psychotherapy, social work, and psychology.

Theatre in Video – 250 performances of leading plays plus 100 documentaries representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors of the 20^th century and beyond. Includes live TV broadcasts of NY productions from the 50s, revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60s and 70s, works from the Broadway Theatre Archives, as well as important contemporary performances. Unlike Hollywood adaptations, these are the actual original productions, captured and recorded before live theatre audiences.

American History in Video – 4,163 titles that include: 1. Documentaries from PBS, History Channel, Bullfrog Films, Documentary Educational Resources, California Newsreel, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, etc. ; 2. The entire series of United News (U.S. Office of War Information governmental newsreels ) and Universal Newsreel (commercial newsreels from Universal Pictures) ; 3. Public affairs videos: interviews with politicians from series like Longines Chronoscope (Columbia Broadcasting System); and 4. Archival footage.

AquaBrowser Surfs Into Drake

brockportlits — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:53:06 +0000

Drake Library patrons looking for books, media and more have a new tool available to use this fall. The new search and discovery application enables students to find materials in additional ways to enhance their research. AquaBrowser displays relevancy-based results as well as facets that allow sorting by type, topic, time period, date, author, region, language, user tags and other views. The word cloud visually displays relationships among terms to enable users to dig deeper into a topic.

Drake is the first four year SUNY library to utilize this new library front-end. AquaBrowser brings to light Drake’s extensive collections, providing users with a better search experience. Your comments and feedback are welcome by e-mailing Pat Maxwell (pmaxwell@brockport.edu)

Try it at:

http://brockport.aquabrowser.com

Rick Bettencourt Visits “MUG”

brockportlits — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:39:37 +0000

Rick Bettencourt of Apple Computers, Inc. visited the Mac Users Group meeting Thursday, April 2nd. He gave us a detailed demo of iMovie 09 and we even had some hands-on tutoring. Below, Bob Cushman learns how to re-direct iMovie 09 to load and save projects from external drives with Rick’s help. Rick also covered other iLife ’09 applications. The new iPhoto had an impressive “Facial Recognition” feature that had the computer find people in photographs with little or no help from the user. This feature has the potential of saving many hours of looking through photographs to find the ones that have a specific person’s photo.

ITS currently plans to load iLife ’09 on all the Macs on campus this summer. As of this posting, iLife ’08 is loaded on all of the Macs in labs on campus, but we have worked out the licensing agreement to upgrade to iLife ’09.

It was a shame there were only around seven people at this event. It’s not often you get to meet with somebody from the company that makes the computer you’re using to ask them specific questions about both hardware and software.

We met in the ETC, or the “Educational Technology Center” down in 55A Drake. This lab has both high-end Macs and PCs (Dell Precision 390’s) The Mac Users Group (“M.U.G.”) meets the first Thursday of every month in the ETC at 11:30 am.

Rick Bettencourt gives Bob Cushman an "iMovie" lesson.